by Pascal Mercier · Wereldbibliotheek · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9789028421011
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«Nachttrein naar Lissabon» is the philosophical novel by Pascal Mercier, published by Wereldbibliotheek in paperback (414 pages, in Dutch).
A Swiss professor abandons his orderly life upon discovering a book by Amadeu de Prado, a deceased Portuguese doctor whose reflections captivate him. That same night he takes the train to Lisbon and reconstructs Prado's story through those who knew him: resistance to Salazar and questions about identity, chance and destiny.
Translated from German by Gerda Meijerink, with the original title «Nachtzug nach Lissabon» (2004). The novel won the Grinzane Cavour Prize 2007 for foreign fiction.
For readers of contemporary European fiction and philosophical novels, with an interest in Portuguese history and culture.
Peter Bieri, better known by his pseudonym, Pascal Mercier, was a Swiss writer and philosopher.
